Below are some media projects I made for a class with the above name, taught by professor Stuart Ewen.

The class is a core course in Hunter's MFA program in Integrated Media Arts, and is cross-listed for doctoral students at the CUNY Graduate Center, where I'm now studying for my doctorate in history.

The pieces (well, at least one in particular) may be a little arcane (but that's really nothing new here is it?). The second project would probably only be understood by my professor and fellow students in the class. Then again, its likely that those folks are the only ones visiting this page anyway.

It's been awhile since I used Powerpoint for anything, and yet, I used it to create almost all the work I submitted (mainly because I don't have mad Flash or video skills). Some of them are pretty large files so check the MB count before you commit your browser to accessing them.

Father & Son (6 MB)

Codex Juhreanus: "La programma di commercio per la madre di terra" (10.6 MB)
(The title of this is decidedly derivative of this influential work). You can run this one in slide show format or advance each frame manually. Whatever. I encourage you to view the entire Powerpoint presentation first, but you can also read this PDF reference of the images I used, along with a little explanation.

Plastic Race: My wife noticed that the proliferation of plastic surgery in our society is creating something of a new and artificial "race." Ever seen someone on the street and thought to yourself, is that person a transexual or a porn star or something?" only to realize that it is simply a person who has had plastic surgery...and now looks like so many porn stars, celebrities, and transexuals do? Francis Galton's crazy composite portraiture was very much on my mind...

Part I (web page with ridiculously large animated gif files...wait for it)
Part II (Powerpoint presentation—MB)

Untitled presentation on a Bakhtin's essay, "Rabelais and His World"...yep. (4.35 MB)